Jim Koepke
03-31-2018, 2:06 PM
There must be something in people's DNA that makes them not only take things apart, but then lose the parts.
It seems most of the time a pair of dividers crosses my path if it had a finial at one time it is now missing.
The other day while hunting for odd hardware in a Wilco store a drawer of lamp hardware was discovered. One of the things was a knurled brass nut for the switch. It was marked as having a 4-36 thread (if my memory is working). To me it seemed it would be easy to re-tap this for a 4-40 fastener. So it was purchased and taken home to install on a recent find:
382798
It surely will not fool anyone into thinking it is the original, but it makes using the dividers a bit easier. Now to go back and pick up a couple more for some other dividers in need of a finial.
jtk
It seems most of the time a pair of dividers crosses my path if it had a finial at one time it is now missing.
The other day while hunting for odd hardware in a Wilco store a drawer of lamp hardware was discovered. One of the things was a knurled brass nut for the switch. It was marked as having a 4-36 thread (if my memory is working). To me it seemed it would be easy to re-tap this for a 4-40 fastener. So it was purchased and taken home to install on a recent find:
382798
It surely will not fool anyone into thinking it is the original, but it makes using the dividers a bit easier. Now to go back and pick up a couple more for some other dividers in need of a finial.
jtk